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Current Chair

Steven E. Sittig, RRT-NPS, C-NPT, FAARC, Chair

Steven SittigSteve has been a member of the AARC since 1989 and previously served as section chair in 2002–2006. Steve also serves as chair of the Disaster Roundtable and has represented the AARC to the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Services. In 2005–2006, he served as the AARC representative on an advisory panel for Project EXTREME, a mass casualty project conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, and Denver Health. He was chair of the AARC Ad Hoc Ventilator Guidance Work Group on Human Resources in 2007–2008. 

Steve was the section’s 2001 Specialty Practitioner of the Year and he has been editor of the Section Bulletin for many years.

Currently, Steve serves as a Pediatric Transport Clinical Specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He has authored articles in Respiratory Care, AARC Times, and other publications, and he also contributed information on the profession for a middle school science textbook, in which he describes a career as a respiratory therapist.

 

Previous Chairs

Year

Chair/Co-Chair

2006 to 2009

Dawn Filippa, RRT, EMT-P

2003 to 2006

Steven E. Sittig, RRT, P/P Specialist

2002

None

2000 to 2001

Jerry A. Focht, RRT

1998 to 1999

Kathleen S. Adams, RRT

1996 to 1997

Kay Lockhart, RRT

1994 to 1995

Jamie Lynn Taylor, RRT

1992 to 1993

Cathy Peterson, AS, RRT

1990 to 1991

Mark A. Washam, RRT, CPFT

1989

Richard A. Bodenstedt, RRT